It finally happened. Lotus CEO Dany Bahar has reportedly been fired by parent company DRB-HICOM…
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Rumor has it that Lutz is actually telling people the company was looking for any excuse to get Bahar out of his contract. The fact that the CEO had apparently been using company funds to renovate his personal properties and to pay for private aircraft at a time when the company was struggling seemed to fit the bill nicely so that's what they went with.

Lutz is notoriously chatty, so it doesn't surprise me that he'd say something like this. What impact it could have on the strained Bahar-Lotus relationship isn't clear, and they could easily claim that there were abundant reasons to get rid of Bahar as CEO.